
Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
The Angel In The House (1854)
Book I, Canto VIII, III The Spirit's Epochs.
The Angel In The House (1854)
The Lost Pleiad
Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、
思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。
Miru tokoro hana ni arazu to iu koto nashi,
omou tokoro tsuki ni arazu to iu koto nashi
Classical Japanese Database, Translation #172 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/172 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth)
Statements
Variant: There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;
There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
“The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.”
Night, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
“Love flowers best in openness and freedom.”
"Cliffrose and Bayonets", p. 26
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Fly not yet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)